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CONFERENCE>
“Tripitaka for the Future: Envisioning the Buddhist Canon in the Digital Age,”
Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Nov. 2-3
by Ouyang Nan
Dear
Colleagues,
The Center
for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, US, would like
to announce an upcoming conference titled
“Tripitaka for the Future: Envisioning the Buddhist
Canon in the Digital Age.” For the details of the conference program
and participants, see the website at https://conferences.cbs.arizona.edu/.
Conference
Statement:
Despite
rising interests in research on modern East Asian Buddhism in recent years,
studies on how Buddhist textual traditions cope with modernity and reinvigorate
themselves as vital forces for religious changes
in the digital age are conspicuously missing. To fill in this lacuna,
the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona will hold an
international conference on the transformation of the Buddhist
canon in history and the digital age to envision a new kind
of Tripitaka for the future. Entitled
“Tripitaka for the Future: Envisioning the Buddhist
Canon in the Digital Age,” this two-day (Nov. 2-3, 2018) conference,
invites about twenty leading scholars in the field to reflect
upon the most recent trends in the compilation, translation, and
digitization of the Buddhist canon in East Asia. This conference will
have impact on a wide range of academic fields such as religious
studies, the history of the book, history of modern East
Asia, politico-religious history, digital humanities, and bibliographical
studies.
Theme: “Tripitaka for the Future:
Envisioning the Buddhist Canon in the Digital Age”
Dates: November 2-3, 2018
Location: Silver and Sage room, Old Main
building (Nov. 2) and Integrated Learning Center Room 119 (Nov. 3), University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US.
Organized by Center for
Buddhist Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Religious
Studies and Classics, and the Center for Digital Humanities at The
University of Arizona.
Sponsored by the World
Buddhist Youth Foundation, Society for Promotion of Buddhism (BDK America), and
Richard L. Evans Office of Religious Outreach, Brigham Young University (BYU),
and Su Wukang East Asia Research Fund.
Conference Program
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Location at Silver and Sage room, Old Main
building
9:00 – 9:20am
OPENING CEREMONY
Host: Jiang Wu | Director,
Center for Buddhist Studies
Speakers: Alain-Philippe Durand | Dean, College of Humanities
Representatives of conference sponsors
Kimberly Jones | Vice Dean, College of Humanities
Speakers: Alain-Philippe Durand | Dean, College of Humanities
Representatives of conference sponsors
Kimberly Jones | Vice Dean, College of Humanities
9:20 – 9:30am
GROUP PHOTO AND COFFEE BREAK
9:30 – 10:50am
PANEL 1. THE BUDDHIST CANON IN THE MODERN
ERA
Chair: Albert Welter | University
of Arizona
Jiang Wu | University of
Arizona
The Chinese Buddhist Canon and the Rise of
Textual Modernity in East Asia
Greg Wilkinson | Brigham
Young University
The Buddhist Canon in America: Meditation
Centers and Scriptural Texts
Dewei Zhang | Sun Yat-sen
University
Competing for National Pride: Making New
Editions of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia
10:50 – 11:00am
COFFEE BREAK
11:00am – 12:00pm
PANEL 2. NEW INITIATIVES OF CANON STUDIES
Chair: Caleb Simmons | University
of Arizona
Andrew Wong | Maitreya
Culture and Education Foundation
A Brief Account of the Beginning of
“Selected Edition of Teaching Materials for the Chinese Buddhist Canon” 《汉文大藏经教材选编》 Project
Wayne de Fremery | Sogang
University
Data Adaptive Text Extraction Techniques
for Individualized Big Data Curation and the Generation of Machine Learning
Models for Buddhist Canon Research
12:00 – 1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00 – 2:20pm
PANEL 3 YOUNG SCHOLAR’S FORUM
Chair: Alison Jameson | University
of Arizona
Lixia Dong | University of
Arizona
The Transformation of the Sutra of
Forty-Two Sections in the Chinese Tripitaka
Youteng Bi | University of
Arizona
Susiddhikara Worship Method and the
Textual Lineage in Chinese Canonical Tradition
Huiqiao Yao | University of
Arizona
The Summary of the Great Vehicle and the
Revival of the Yogācāra School during the Late Ming Dynasty
2:20 – 2:30pm
COFFEE BREAK
2:30 – 4:00pm
PANEL 4. THE BUDDHIST CANON FROM
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Jiang Wu | University
of Arizona
Albert Welter | University of
Arizona
The Uses and Abuses of Buddhist Texts in
China: Searching for a “Practical Canon”
Rae Dachille | University of
Arizona
Mapping the Body of the Tibetan Buddhist
Canon: Citational Practice as “Limitation” and “Ingenuity” in Buddhist Exegesis
James Robson | Harvard
University
The Body of Texts Inside of the Buddha’s
Body: A Preliminary Assessment of the Canonical Texts Interred Inside of
Buddhist Statues in East Asia.
4:30 – 6:00pm
KHYENTSE FOUNDATION BUDDHIST STUDIES
LECTURE SERIES
(Sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation)
Host and Chair: Albert Welter
Host and Chair: Albert Welter
A. Charles Muller | Center
for Evolving Humanities, University of Tokyo
"Ti-yong
("essence-function"): Toward a More Thorough Understanding of the
Ethico-Soteriological Prioritizing Principle for East Asian Buddhism,
Confucianism, and Daoism."
6:00 – 7:30pm
RECEPTION AT UA POETRY CENTER
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Location change at Integrated Learning
Center Room 119
9:00 – 10:30am
PANEL 5: DIGITIZATION OF THE BUDDHIST
CANON
Chair: Takashi Miura | University
of Arizona
Masahiro Shimoda | University
of Tokyo
Building a Digital Infrastructure for the
Humanities and the Role of Buddhist Studies
A. Charles Muller | University
of Tokyo
The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and
CJKV-E Dictionary of Confucianism and Daoism at 32 Years
Tensho Miyazaki and Kiyonori
Nagasaki | International Institute for Digital Humanities
Toward an Ecosystem for Buddhist Studies
in the Digital Environments
10:30 – 10:40am
BREAK
10:40am – 12:10pm
PANEL 6 THE APPLICATION OF AI AND DEEP
LEARNING TOOLS (I)
Chair: Bryan Carter | University
of Arizona
Jin Lianwen| South China
University of Technology
Toward High Performance Optical Character
Recognition of Historical Tripitaka Document Images: A Deep Learning Approach
Ven. Xianchao | Longquan
Temple
AI-assisted compilation of Buddhist
Tripitaka
Jiang Wu and Haiyong Zhang | University
of Arizona / Boeckeler Instruments Inc.
Preliminary Research on the Chinese
Buddhist Canon based on Google Attention OCR and TensorFlow Applications
12:15 – 1:30pm
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 2:30pm
PANEL 7: THE APPLICATION OF AI AND DEEP
LEARNING TOOLS (II)
Chair: Judd Ruggill | University
of Arizona
Alex Amies| Google Cloud Platform,
Google Inc.
Methods for Indexing, Annotating, and
Retrieving Information from Chinese Buddhist Texts
Ven. You Zai | Foguang Temple
Adaptive Machine Learning in the
Digitization of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
2:30 – 2:45pm
COFFEE BREAK
2:45 – 4:30pm
ROUNDTABLE: “THE DIGITAL TRIPITAKA AND
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Moderator: Ken S.
McAllister | Associate Dean of Research and Program Innovation
(College of Humanities), Professor of Public & Applied Humanities
Panelists:
Ven. Xianchao | Longquan Temple
Masahiro Shimoda | University of Tokyo
Alex Amies | Infrastructure Department, Google INC
Jiang Wu | The University of Arizona
Ven. Xianchao | Longquan Temple
Masahiro Shimoda | University of Tokyo
Alex Amies | Infrastructure Department, Google INC
Jiang Wu | The University of Arizona
6:00 – 8:00pm
FAREWELL PARTY
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
All Day
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